Lane Speidel interviews Jim Strong, his friend and bandmate (Saggy) about Strong’s work, his spiritual life in Quakerism and other practices, and his music
Read MoreArtblog contributor Joyce Chung talks with Rachel Hsu about the artist’s new temporary public art in Maja Park on the Ben Franklin Parkway. In this wide-ranging, poetic discussion, they cover issues of how a body interacts in space; and with others, raising issues of community as well as individual experience.
Read MoreSusan Isaacs writes about a historic farmhouse in Delaware that was save by some artists who have created a non-profit organization, fundraised, and renovated the farmhouse into an art space for the community. It’s a great story of art and historic preservation.
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper talks with three of her former teachers or mentors at PAFA to get their reaction to the recent changes the school made to its curriculum.
Read MoreLane Speidel sees new work by Todd Stong, in the artist’s first solo exhibit in Philadelphia, at Peep Projects, and follows up with the artist to find out more. In his essay, Speidel mentions Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment,” an imagined hellish or heavenly nonexistent space with many bodies in ascent or descent.
Read MoreI was invited by the editors at Philadelphia Citizen to write something about the meaning of the loss of University of the Arts to the city, and how it would impact us all. I wrote about how artists are optimists and that this blow tears at the spirit of can-do positivity we were just now beginning to get back after the pandemic and recession stole it from us.
Read MoreLauren Whearty, an adjunct faculty member at University of the Arts, write a thoughtful and questioning essay about the future for all who are touched directly or indirectly by the imminent closure of the school (scheduled for June 7, 2024).
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